Bay Area Arts
Writers, visual artists, musicians, & other arts aficionados in the San Francisco Bay Area
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@marissaskud.bsky.social
@sfbatcc.bsky.social
Founded in 1976; Critics Circle reviewers cover theatre in nine Bay Area counties, across various media; Annual Awards celebrate Excellence in Theatre.
@jaredstearnssf.bsky.social
Biographer | Cinephile | Pop Culture Nerd | https://linktr.ee/jaredstearns | Very, very gay 🌈 | San Francisco-based author of "PURE: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers," out now from Headpress | 🚫 DMs | 💙
@vancemaverick.bsky.social
Computer programmer and composer living in San Francisco vancemaverick.com
@godoymusic.com
Composer (concert/film/games), Sound Designer, Educator, Saxophonist, Synth Nerd, Coffee Snob Oakland, CA He/him Mariogodoy.com
@sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social
A new print magazine, published three times per year ⚫️ Issue One 2025 is here ⚫️ Annual subscriptions and Issue One orders are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️ sfreview.org
@jspector.bsky.social
Professional procrastinator, amateur playwright. Dad. Husband. Reader. Northern Californian. Currently on Broadway with EUREKA DAY at The Friedman Theater.
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday www.heydaybooks.com
@emmaruthless.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies. Yes, I can write a bio for your band emmasilvers.com
@footage.bsky.social
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
@megmoriarty.bsky.social
Bay Area Artist and Photo Librarian. Hanging out in the intersections of abstract art, science, and spirituality✨ MegMoriarty.com
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@paintkatt.bsky.social
Art Director, Illustrator, traditional #artist. Focusing on #illustration San Francisco 💕 🚫No AI. 🚫No Nazis. 🍁 https://linktr.ee/julialundman 🍁 Website: julialundman.com
@screenslatesf.bsky.social
Daily arthouse/repertory cinema listings around the Bay. First official @screenslate.bsky.social outpost. Weekly newsletter sign up: http://screenslate.com/newsletter
@elisabethnicula.bsky.social
artist and writer / editor @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social / does @smoothfriend.bsky.social / so good at balatro https://elisabethnicula.com
@katjarivera.bsky.social
Theater Artist, Massage Therapist, Abuela, tangential thinker (also known as ADHD), Chic/Mick (also known as Mexican/Irish), Dodger fan. I think Pollyanna gets a bad rap. Founder of FART(Feisty Abuela Resisting Tyranny! We’re going to raise a stink!)
@avani.bsky.social
ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023. https://linktr.ee/circumviso
@artist68.bsky.social
Artist and Senior Lecturer in the Pictorial Area of the School of Art and Art History at San Jose State University. Art, books, and film lover. Empathy rules. No DM’s please. #FBR #BLUECREW #DEPORTMUSK #RESIST #
@davidjchavez.bsky.social
Brown drama guy. Bay Area theater critic/reporter @ SJ Mercury News, SF Chronicle, KQED, American Theatre Mag + others. Chair: American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, 2X Pulitzer Drama Juror ('22-'23) GO SJ Sharks! IG: @davidjchavez #hellatheatre
@stephlaubooks.com
Author, illustrator, former pastry chef. Making picture books & graphic novels w/ a splash of mischief. THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER is now available for pre-order! (Penguin Workshop - Nov 4, 2025) Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks
@becca.gomezfarrell.com
Author of fictions and strong leisure-time opinions. My Wings Rising epic fantasy duology is from Meerkat Press. I also write horror, funny sci-fi, and maybe essays soon. Food & Drink Blog @ TheGourmez.com. 📍Bay Area, CA
@cartoonart.bsky.social
Founded in 1984, CAM is a San Francisco-based, educational arts nonprofit that has something for everyone—from comic strips, comic books, and anime to political cartoons, graphic novels, and underground comix. Come visit our galleries: cartoonart.org
@alfredtwu.com
Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party Delegate, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement. art: http://alfredtwu.com
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@danielle.bsky.social
interactive performances & pixel art. i also build a virtual tarot platform moonlight.world 🐍🌛 daniellebaskin.com
@shurwitt.bsky.social
Longtime BayArea arts journalist and occasional playwright turned mailman. I could tell you stories.
@kristentate.bsky.social
Editor and writer at the Blue Garret. Southerner by birth, San Franciscan by choice, Italian by some route I have yet to discover. she/her/y'all https://bio.site/kristentate
@slywit.bsky.social
Half 🇺🇸, half 🇫🇷, all-around opinionated. Editor currently living in San Francisco. Hitchcocko-Hawksienne. National parkologist. Opera aficionada. Supporting women directors is my jam. Blog: slywit.wordpress.com
@katiemayplays.bsky.social
San Francisco based Playwright. Trained in science. Impervious to water balloons. BayFC Fan. Doom Loop Denier. (Definitely not three goats in a trench coat.)
@booksmith.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976. 11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
@spreeners.bsky.social
@enkohl.bsky.social
Professional Voyeur, she/her Bikes to Books, Substrate Arts bylines at KQED + others http://estrellasuerteproductions.com https://substratearts.com
@capnjoy.bsky.social
Director of dramaturgy & new works @ American Conservatory Theater. Co-founder thekilroys.org. Dorkily earnest about multiracial democracy, well-designed public spaces, & the civic function of art. Oakland grown.
@arthistory.bsky.social
art historian with eclectic interests early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
@lisairontongue.bsky.social
Music writer (SF Classical Voice, SF Chronicle, Opera). Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
@mdgood.bsky.social
Retired inventor of the MusicXML music notation format. Tenor in opera and new music choruses. Board member at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
@sfinsfevents.bsky.social
Science Fiction, San Francisco - SF's premier science fiction, fantasy, horror and genre author events, since 2004! Events take place at The Lost Church, SF CA, sponsored by Tachyon Publications. Sign up for our newsletter at http://www.sfinsf.org
@lilyjaniak.bsky.social
San Francisco Chronicle theater critic, wheelwoman, How can there be any sin in sincere?
@joshuakosman.bsky.social
Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
@pwallinga.bsky.social
Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
@marissaskud.bsky.social
Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.